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Beyond Vietnam
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr.’s charismatic “I Have a Dream” speech is emblazoned in our historical memories. But another address to a much smaller audience on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York is no less significant. There King demonstrated his deep understanding of how the system works. He moved beyond a simple race […]
First Amendment & Free Speech
Nat Hentoff
A spirited defense of the First Amendment and in particular connecting it with censorship of student newspapers and their right to free expression. Hentoff approvingly quotes Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas who says, “Students have fundamental rights and should not be seen as closed circuit recipients of only what the state wishes to communicate.” Hentoff […]
India’s Great Sitarist in Concert
Ravi Shankar
A wonderful rare live recording featuring sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and his long time accompanist Allah Rakha on tabla. You’ll hear two ragas in this concert recorded at Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado campus. The first raga is “Pat Manjari” in jhaptal, a ten-beat rhythmic cycle. That is followed by another evening raga […]
Z Media Institute 2004
Noam Chomsky
Gunned Down: Kids Getting Killed
Gary Younge
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012, impending firearm control legislation led to panic buying of guns throughout the country. In 2016, the prospect of Hillary as president led to another rush to buy. Smith and Wesson stock prices soared. Remington Arms Company boosted production. Walmart gun sales went up. Incidents of […]
Reheating the Cold War
Stephen Cohen
Winston Churchill once observed, the further back you go, the farther forward you can see. We know little of Russia and its history beyond bears, Siberian winters, the Kremlin and Doctor Zhivago. The United States emerged victorious at end of the Cold War. An era of cooperation was to be ushered in. What should have […]
The Saudi-U.S. Sinister Alliance
Medea Benjamin
The Saudi-U.S. relationship takes crucial shape in 1945 when FDR meets with Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, the king of Saudi Arabia, on a U.S. destroyer in the Suez Canal. The essence of the get together was to insure Saudi’s vast oil reserves would be the special preserve of U.S. oil companies. In return Washington would […]
Utopia
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky – Utopia In the darkest of times, we have to imagine that a world of equality and environmental and social justice is possible. Are we dreamers? Not practical? Out of touch with reality? Perhaps. But throughout history, it has been small groups of visionary activists who ignite the flame and light up the […]
From a Nun on the Bus
Simone Campbell
B.B. King sings, “Nobody likes you but your mama and she may be jiving you too.” A lot of poor people may feel that way. They are stigmatized and demonized. If they’d only go away. What’s wrong with them? Can’t they find a job or a place to live? The persistence of poverty in the […]
Smoke, Fumes & Big Oil
Wenonah Hauter
2016 will be the hottest year on Earth since data keeping began 136 years ago. Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese. He says he will gut the Environmental Protection Agency and pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate change agreement. We can get out of this death spiral. […]
Bob Dylan: Chimes of Freedom
Mike Marqusee
Bob Dylan is indisputably one of the major musicians of our time. He is a complicated and paradoxical figure that defies categorization. Although his work has undergone some ironic transmutations over the years, his musical development has often been a response to his rebellious and restless nature and refusal to be typecast. Like Picasso and […]
Responsibility to Protect
Vijay Prashad
Following the mass killings in Rwanda and the international communities’ failure to act, the UN formulated a new doctrine called Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Its key provision is “Sovereignty no longer exclusively protects states from foreign interference.” Libya is a perfect example of R2P gone haywire. There were hyperbolic reports of atrocities, bloodbaths and massacres. […]

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